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Do This, Do That, Do the Other Thing: The Many Hats of a Multitasking Small College Librarian

http://thisthatotherthing.wordpress.com

A blog written by a librarian at a small engineering library. Blog deals with the challenges that librarians of small colleges face such as multitasking, web 2.0, information literacy, library and information technology, time management and many others. Blogger is a reference and electronic services librarian at a small engineering college.

• Added on: Oct 6th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Richard Bernier
• Listed in: Higher Education & Learning
• Tags: library research librarian multitasking small college rose-hulman institute of technology

Recent Posts

• Book 99 years overdue returned. Fine =$361.35

  Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 13:57 in books, Seinfeld, bookman, overdue books, book fines, new bedford public library, library humor

  Here’s a good one.  A man was going through his deceased mother’s stuff and found a book belonging to the New Bedford, MA Public library.  It was due on May 10, 1910.  He did the right thing and returned it, and found out the fine was ...

• UPDATE on “Editing OCR Transcript Field in CONTENTdm”

  Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 12:39 in LinkedIn, transcripts, digital archives, contentdm, contentdm project client, college yearbooks, compound objects, ocr extension

  http://thisthatotherthing.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/update-on-edit…d-in-contentdm/ To update an earlier post titled “Editing OCR Transcript Field in CONTENTdm” I would like to confirm that this process is at least 10 times faster!  It...

• Journal Archive Subscriptions Vs. Purchase: The Fear of Losing Digital Content Continues

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 10:10 in LinkedIn, digital library, sae, academic journals, information resources, society of automotive engineers, asee, american society of mechanical engineers, asee engineering libraries division, engineering libraries, journal subscriptions, sae technical papers

  http://thisthatotherthing.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/journal-archive-subscriptions-vs-purchase-the-fear-of-losing-digital-content-continues/ One of the biggest fears of librarians since entering into the world of online journals is the fear of losing...

• Google Launches Real-Time Search Results

  Posted on Monday December 7th, 2009 at 14:53 in google, twitter, LinkedIn, information resources, fast information, google real-time search results, real time reports

  http://thisthatotherthing.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/google-real-ti…search-results/ At first I thought, BIG DEAL!  Who wants to see people’s posts on Twitter?  Especially crap about Twilight!  But as I watched this video and saw the other ...

• Holidays, illness, new quarter = fewer blog posts

  Posted on Monday December 7th, 2009 at 11:59 in holidays, flu, LinkedIn, librarianship, work work work, multitasking, winter quarter

  http://thisthatotherthing.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/holidays-illne…few-blog-posts/ December started off with a bang, or should I say a bang or a fizzle, depending on how you look at it.  We started our winter quarter last week.  Right away we st...

• Holiday LP hunt, limited but good

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 13:56 in music, RECORDS, eagles, rush, lps, deep purple, molly hatchet

  http://thisthatotherthing.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/lp-hunt-small-but-good/ So over the Thanksgiving break I was in Louisville and did some record hunting and I only came up with four this time.  I swear the prices on old LPs must be rising.  But ...

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